Rosneathian
1471
That's nice of you to say. I began by collecting watches with neutral indices, then drifted to Romans, and recently to Arabics. For Arabics, Breguet is king and everything else follows, in my humble opinion.
Hah. Yes you're right. The PF gives the game away: it's how long it took for me to take these still-sub-par photographs :p
And thank you for the generous words, too.
Fully agree with your statement
There are Arabic numerals and there are Breguet numerals. The latter represent the most elegant way of displaying time.
Thank you. I enjoy a much greater variety of watches than I allow into my collection.
For example, skeletonized watches can be quite wonderful, but I can't help but feel that wearing one would feel like having a cadaver on the wrist. I also like world time watches - a lot - but would like to see more that find a way to render the entire gl...
There are a few, although for obvious reasons it's quite hard to pull off.
One that intrigues me is the Montblanc Geosphere. Its two rotating hemispheres are accurately rendered, but one would have to have a keen eye and a fine sense of geography to assign times to location.
ooooh a cadaver on the wrist, I don;t like that image...
A most interesting post, beautigul quartet...
Interestingly, your good point about the charm of Breguet numerals and…
how they “lean” into time made me realize that that similarity is probably why I also love Eastern Arabic numerals on watch dials as well. There’s also a sense of flowing artistry that I see in both types of numerals. Thanks for this insightful post. ...
